Books
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In ‘Beautyland,’ an Awkward Alien Reports From Earth by Fax Machine
In Marie-Helene Bertino’s remarkable funny-sad novel, the young visitor and her mother find the means to persevere in the aisles…
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Like His Illustrations, Leo Lionni Contained Multitudes
Before side hustles went mainstream, Leo Lionni was a multitasker — and a compartmentalizer. Best known as the writer and…
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‘Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go’ Turns 50
My wife was editing our teenager’s bedroom, hunting things to pass on to his younger cousins, or donate to Goodwill.…
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Audiobook of the Week: Safiya Sinclair’s Rhythmic Incantations
Reading her audiobook memoir, “How to Say Babylon,” the poet gives voice to her Jamaican roots, her early ambition and…
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Holly Jackson’s Maximization of Google Maps
In her “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” series and “Five Survive,” this British author makes herself at home on…
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Jill McCorkle Is Getting Over Her ‘Henry James Phobia’
What books are on your night stand? “The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman’s…
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Read Your Way Through Utah
Utah is a place of paradoxes, full of terrible beauty and complicated history. The writer Terry Tempest Williams recommends books…
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The Word That Undid Claudine Gay
The fate of Harvard’s president is the latest evidence of a deep crisis in American academia.
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16th-Century Beauty Secrets, Revealed
In “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” the historian Jill Burke explores the aesthetic expectations of an era — and…
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The Problem of Misinformation in an Era Without Trust
When the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk sat down for his profanity-laced interview at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit in…